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Goose Review

Renee and Flo are eighteen and on the brink of their
adult lives. But while Flo is determined to get to uni and take Renee with her,
Renee can feel her sense of independence soar.

As Flo turns to the church for support, Renee embarks on
a seductive and perilous relationship with an older man…

In their final year before leaving their home on
Guernsey, will Renee and Flo still be each other’s soulmates, or is this the
end of their relationship?

My review

Feelings about the
book: CONTAINS SPOILERS

I was really looking forward to reading Goose after I
finished Paper Aeroplanes however I hate to say it I didn’t enjoy it as much as
the first book for some reason. I really struggled with the church element of
the book as it just seemed to steer the book in a whole other direction to
where I thought it was going to go. I know that it was a way for Flo to deal
with her grief from losing her father it just seemed to have come out of
nowhere and was not something that I was expecting at all. But I could identify
with the people who worshiped god but then were a whole other person at school
and out in public. I have known a few of these people and I also know the
people who are hard core about it all and even have a friend who does a lot of
ministering work.

Renee went in the direction I thought she was going to
go. I totally saw her dating an older guy and not really caring about school in
the end although when it came to the game of chicken I thought she would have
been one of the first people to have jumped in, considering what she was like
in Paper Aeroplanes (how tough and fearless she was). I was really happy to see
that she was having a great time with her Aunt and that she eventually started
talking to her sister again and even went over and saw her. However I didn’t
really see her turning into a food critique but as soon as it was said I was
like, yeah I can totally see her doing that.

I must say that I was shocked by what happened in the end
of the book but thought the author did very well with how she let each
character deal with it all. But I felt so sorry for the mother for not only
losing her husband but to then lose her son (who was all she had left) and then
still forgive Renee that was truly amazing. I also loved reading about how she
dealt with the guilt of being the one alive in the crash. It was so good to
read about what the author perceives to think happens when someone is dealing
with survivors guilt and I think she did a remarkable job of it.

Favourite
character: In Paper Aeroplanes my favourite character was Flo but in Goose
it would defiantly have to be Renee. The way she decides to play chicken and
let someone that she barely knows drive her car, just so she can try and make
up with Flo was so courageous. I know that if I was in her position and I had
her gut feeling that I defiantly wouldn’t have gotten in the car, especially
knowing that my car was very temperamental and the person who was driving it
didn’t really know how to.

Favourite quote/part:
Once again there was a heap of laughs throughout the book and my favourite
part contained one of these moments. Renee and Flo broke into their old school
to take a memento from there to make Flo feel better. But upon getting there
they go into the science room and have to quickly hide while one of their old
teachers and the caretaker get it on. After they have finished the girls steal
the school’s skeleton. The below scene is what happens when they get home with
him.

I feel Ricky’s feet
through the dress and pull it up over his shoulders. ‘Quick, go and get the
camera from the drawer in the kitchen,’ I tell Flo. ‘We must document this special
day properly.’

She comes round so
it is next to me and put the flowery head piece on her that was also in the
plastic bag. I have linked Ricky’s arm through mine and I flutter my eyelids as
if blissfully in love. I think Nana thinks it’s genuinely a wedding, she is so
happy an smiley.

‘Ok, look at your
new husband,’ instructs Flo. I turn to Ricky and gaze lovingly into his eye
sockets. ‘Do you, Renee, take Ricky to be your lawful wedded husband?

‘I do,’ I say,
wistfully.

‘Do you, Ricky,
take Renee to be your lawful wedded wife?’

I say ‘I Do’ like a
really bad ventriloquist and tug on the neck of the dress so Ricky nods.

‘I now pronounce
you hu-‘ But before she can finish her pronouncement the distinctive noise of a
sharp hasp stops her going any futher.

Rating: 4/5

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